Joaquin Phoenix’s unlikely pick for his most important role: “Dishonesty is so ugly on film”
An unexpected game-changer.
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 08/2025
The Tom Hardy performance inspired by ‘Come Dine With Me’: “It’s great people-watching”
Britain’s most beloved cultural export.
Anna Kendrick’s unexpected adoration for a “perfect” Jean-Claude Van Damme movie
“Just so lean and solid”.
The movie that sent Michael Mann into Hollywood exile: “It’s my responsibility”
Both Mann and this movie’s star thought it was a misfire.
“He was apprehensive”: the director Cary Grant spent his entire career avoiding at all costs
This baffled the director in question.
The actor who despised John Wayne just as much as he loathed her: “I hate bad-mouthing a lady”
At least it was mutual.